Re: Great Fragrances Ruined By One Note

Didn't completely ruin it for me but I could have done without the cloying peach note in Make Peace Not War by HdP (not a great but nice fragrance). It should have been toned down considerably or done away with. It would have been much better IMO.

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Re: Great Fragrances Ruined By One Note

Tobacco Vanille. The vanilla.

I'm serious.

The front of this one is glorious and if the budget / marketing committee had allowed the perfumer to make a more coherent link from the tobacco into a vanilla of the same calibre as Guerlain used in Ode a la Vanille Madagascar (for instance) it would be a masterpiece IMO. As it is, you float along for a bit on a lovely introduction then fall off the cliff into a vat of "synthetic vanilla candle accord" designed for 'longjevidee' and not much else.

Re: Great Fragrances Ruined By One Note

I wouldn't go as far as to say it ruins the fragrance, but at some point during the mid phase of Knize Ten, after the glorious opening
a bland cardboard note appears (I'm assuming it's the carnation). Still a favourite , I just wish that note wasn't present.

Re: Great Fragrances Ruined By One Note

Usually, no such fragrance in my case. For the simple reason that if a note puts me off, I tend to sense as soon as the top and middle notes and I simply stop being interested in the remaining of the fragrance notes, no matter how good they are.

Re: Great Fragrances Ruined By One Note

Originally Posted by BottleJunky

The metallic note in Chanel's Platinum Egoiste is piercing and sharp to my nose. We're it not for that it would be a very nice scent to me.

I felt exactly the same way the first time I tried PE. I got a couple samples from Sephora, though, and after repeated wearings, I find the metallic note only to be part of the mids and not the overall drydown. This is slowly becoming one of my favorite scents and definitely my favorite from Chanel. For me it's also an affirmation of how important it is to sample a fragrance at least three different times on the skin.